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UK
/ˈɔːstɹʌk/
]
[ US /ˈɑˌstɹək/ ]
[ US /ˈɑˌstɹək/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
stood in awed silence before the shrine
in grim despair and awestruck wonder
How To Use awestruck In A Sentence
- At the height of the craze, I stood on the North Bank at Highbury in a forest of bananas, watching awestruck as they celebrated another goal going in by either bopping your neighbour over the head, or simply chucking the thing in the air.
- At the nearby aquarium, the children were awestruck by the different kinds of fish.
- Finnegan howled and spluttered in inebriate rage, then sank back in his seat and stared up at Arabella with a kind of awestruck respect. Salvage for the Saint
- Indeed the Prime Minister looked more awestruck of her than she was of him when he presented the medals. Times, Sunday Times
- About 125 years later, the town erected an enormous, life-sized model of the squid, so that all who look upon it might be awestruck.
- But their awestruck silence was soon replaced by gales of laughter when their teacher read the letter out loud.
- Israfil," the Boy said suddenly, leaning forward to look at the book, as if to make sure, and speaking in an awestruck voice -- "is that the The Heavenly Twins
- I have been awestruck by this man for a year now and he just keeps getting better.
- In a taxi in Mumbai, she sat quietly on the back seat awestruck by the towering buildings almost touching the sky on either side of the road.
- He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince. Bronzino's Medici portraits – review